From: hhemken AT cell DOT cinvestav DOT mx (Heinz Hemken) Subject: (gnu-win32) Re: NT demands (was: Default linker output filename) 26 Nov 1996 19:26:37 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <329B9F21.11F1.cygnus.gnu-win32@cell.cinvestav.mx> References: Reply-To: hhemken AT cell DOT cinvestav DOT mx Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > Well, not everyone can afford NT. I still have more hard drive > activity than I like with 48 Mb, as opposed to 24 Mb with W95. I run NT 3.51 workstation on a Dell 486/66 machine with 16 Mb RAM & ~750 Mb HD. I can run a couple of large apps at a time {PowerPoint | MSWord | Visual Cafe | Netscape Navigator/Mail | Supercede} with an open net connection without any major problems (though occasionally when I shutdown it gets lost). I don't have gcc on this machine, but I doubt I'd have major problems running it. Swapping CAN get heavy, though. NT as memory/disk hog is kind of an overhyped fact. Run W95 on 8 Mb RAM and see how far you can get. NT 3.51 WS with 24 or 48 Mb of RAM should be even better, though I've heard people claim it runs poorly with > 16 Mb (sounds crazy to me). -- Heinz Hemken http://www.cell.cinvestav.mx/hh/bchh.html - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".